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  • Year 6

How does globalisation affect trade?

In this lesson, we will learn all about how globalisation affects trade. We will begin by learning about what trade is and then explore how globalisation has affected trade. Finally, we will learn about how trade affects different people.

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Lesson 3 of 10
  • Year 6

How does globalisation affect trade?

In this lesson, we will learn all about how globalisation affects trade. We will begin by learning about what trade is and then explore how globalisation has affected trade. Finally, we will learn about how trade affects different people.

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Key learning points

  1. Understand what trade is
  2. Explore how trade has changed
  3. Examine how trade can bring advantages and disadvantages to different people

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5 Questions

Q1.
What did most people use to communicate in the early 20th century?

Mobile phones
Correct answer: Telephones
The Internet

Q2.
How has the number of people using the internet changed over time?

The number of people using the internet has decreased.
Correct answer: The number of people using the internet has increased.
The number of people using the internet has remained the same.

Q3.
Which of these statements is not true?

The internet has led to less face-to-face communication in some places.
The internet has made it easier for people to learn new things.
The internet has made it much easier and quicker for people to communicate.
Correct answer: The percentage of people who can access the internet is the same in every country

Q4.
Which of these things did not help increase globalisation in the 1800s?

Railroads
Steamships
Correct answer: Trucks

Q5.
How have shipping containers helped facilitate globalisation?

They have increased the connections between people.
Correct answer: They have made trade cheaper and efficient.
They have made trade more expensive.

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5 Questions

Q1.
How has international trade changed over time?

The amount of international trade has decreased.
Correct answer: The amount of international trade has increased.
The amount of international trade has remained the same.

Q2.
What does import mean?

Correct answer: To bring goods or services into a country from another country
To buy and sell goods and services
To take goods or services out of a country to another country

Q3.
Why are more and more companies being created?

Because of the development of new technology.
Because of the increased connections around the world between people and places.
Correct answer: Because people have more money to spend on goods and services.

Q4.
Some geographers and historians argue that globalisation began when Christopher Columbus arrived in which country?

Correct answer: America
Britain
China
India

Q5.
Which of these statements is not true?

The internet has led to less face-to-face communication in some places.
The internet has made it easier for people to learn new things.
The internet has made it much easier and quicker for people to communicate.
Correct answer: The percentage of people who can access the internet is the same in every country